Brenda Nuckton

Trollina the Deplorably Beautiful Troll Brenda Nuckton

Trip! Trap! Trip! Trap!..."I'm coming to eat you up!" roared the troll!




The Three Billy Goats Gruff have introduced children to the delight of being terrified for many decades. But what if the troll doesn't want to eat the goat? What if the troll just wants to grow flowers and find a friend?




Meet Trollina, a little girl troll so deplorably beautiful her mother disappeared in horror at the first sight of her. The other trolls don't believe she's a troll at all. And any day now, a Billy goat will come along, break her into bits and toss her into the river! What's a little troll to do?




Trollina, the Deplorably Beautiful Troll is a loving homage to The Three Billy Goats Gruff. This illustrated chapter book for seven- to eleven-year-old readers re-imagines the story from a troll's point of view. Written in a fairy tale idiom, it also borrows freely from more modern language to create a universally appealing story. Norville Parchment's playful illustrations invoke the spirit of Chagall, bringing each character lovingly to life. The pictures and text are interwoven, so that the verbal and visual stories unfold vividly together.




Whether as a bedtime story, or a child's first chapter book, Trollina is a story that children and adults will treasure together.